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Resident pushes Church Street 25 mph and truck limits; committee backs targeted 25-mph recommendation
Summary
Resident Bob Wall urged reductions, signage and truck restrictions for Church Street; after engineering and enforcement discussion the committee voted to ask the select board to reduce Church Street to 25 mph from 122 Church to Main and asked police to gather additional speed data.
Resident Bob Wall asked the Northborough Traffic Safety Committee to address speeding and heavy trucks on Church Street, presenting mapped suggestions that included lowering the limit from 35 to 25 in the more congested lower section, adding speed signs, posting no-tandem-trailer signage, and considering time‑of‑day truck restrictions.
Scott Charpentier and the town’s traffic engineer agreed much of Lower Church is geometrically narrow and recommended a 25‑mph limit from Main Street south to a point near Colby…
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